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Paramount Communications Inc. said it added four more affiliates to its proposed fifth television network, bringing the total station count so far to 25. . . . General Motors Corp. said sales in Latin America rose 28% in 1993 to 402,000 vehicles, the most in any year since 1980. . . . Merrill Lynch Business Advisory Services, a division of Merrill Lynch, said the total value of mergers and acquisitions announced in 1993 involving U.S. companies jumped 86% to $176.4 million from the prior year, while the number of deals grew only 4% to 2,664.